...and the rest of the song is also good! ;)

sheer perfectness - super balanced, timeless songwriting. Hoping to hear more from Joseph Houck & co soon

Country rock with a bluegrass flavor. I am liking this. Great songwriting, singing, and instrumental performance.

sipping this lyricism like a Jack Daniels on rocks

Classic songwriting done with a honest and authentic delivery!

Here's track one from my latest album CONGERIES, featuring Jeff Martin on bass, drums, and backing vocals.

Mixed and mastered by Jon Huxtable (smallfishrecordings).

Lightning-bolts and Hurricanes 
(last verse includes words from “Barbara Allen” Trad. and 
Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 18” and "Romeo and Juliet") 

Little Darling, 
Who is it wears the ball and chain? 
Take these shackles from my neck 
That I might breathe again 

A storm is raging, 
The ceiling drips with rain 
But summer breaks through 
With lightning bolts and hurricanes 

Now, on the pastures, 
The prairies, and the plains 
Sunlight bathes the lowing cows 
And dries the window panes 

"It's one or the other," 
Old man leans upon his sugar cane 
He says, "Pour us another round 
Of lightning bolts and hurricanes" 

The green buds swellin' 
In the merry month of May 
Rough winds shake my darling, true 
But life teems from decay 

These violent delights 
Must end with violent pangs 
For summer breaks too 
With lightning bolts and hurricanes

www.josephhouckmusic.com

Congeries

Lightning Bolts And Hurricanes

Singer songwriter from the mountains of North Carolina

New EP "Blue Ridge Mountain Waterfalls" out now (Sept. 18th, 2025)

www.josephhouckmusic.com

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